Brussels, 06/03/2003 (Agence Europe) - This week the European Union and Mercosur finally exchanged offers for scrapping tariff barriers, within the negotiations framework for an association and liberalisation agreement between the two regional groups. The new Mercosur offer covers 83.5% of European exports, indicated the Paraguay Ambassador to Brussels, Emilio Gimenez. According to the latter, this constitutes a "significant improvement" compared to the offer submitted in December 2001,...